The Massacre of a Trial for Genocide
Benedicto Lucas García, a parachutist trained by France and the United States, was an iconic leader of the Guatemalan counterinsurgency. Decades after the horror, as some of the remaining Maya Ixil…
Defense Strategy and Guatemalan AG’s Decisions Reduce Odds of Genocide Conviction
In the genocide trial against retired military commander Benedicto Lucas García, initially expected to end three weeks ago, the defense has attempted to recuse the court to delay sentencing. Last-m…
Ixil Genocide Trial Against Benedicto Lucas García Nears End
Eleven years after the genocide trial of ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, that of General Benedicto Lucas García, a former chief of the General Staff, began this April. In over 85 hearings, witnesses…
Ixil Dignity
Víctor Peña presented this photo essay in Spanish in March 2019, in El Faro. It is now translated in the lead-up to the verdict in the trial of retired Guatemalan General Benedicto Lucas García on …
Genocide in the Ixil Triangle – Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London and their mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investig…
Analyzing The Role And Ascent To Power Of The Military In Guatemala
The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) shares an article written in exile by Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez. This in-depth study traces the history of corruption and impunity in Guatemala from the…
Guatemala Archdiocese a force behind genocide trial of retired general
Mary Jo McConahay writes in the National Catholic Reporter on the trial of former Gen. Manuel Benedicto Lucas García on charges of genocide. Lucas has already been convicted of crimes against human…
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